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naviHealth CMO: Home Health Partnerships Critical to Successful Care Transitions

Home Health Care

Also, frankly, to improve the care model for the Medicare patient. As health care shifts into the home, how will your organization and others help facilitate that? There’s been an acceleration in the desire for patients — especially seniors — to get care in alternative settings.

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Q&A: Using an Alternative Payment Model to Support Community Health Worker Sustainability in Maine’s Primary Care Plus Program

NASHP

During a recent virtual meeting focused on alternative payment approaches, Maine state officials detailed how the state intends to use its Primary Care Plus (PCPlus) program to reimburse for CHW services.­ What is Maine’s PCPlus program and how does it support CHW services? What is an Alternative Payment Model?

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Home-Based Care Acquisitions, Partnerships Both on Table for CVS Health

Home Health Care

On its fourth quarter earnings call a month later, the company even flirted with the idea of getting into fee-for-service Medicare home health through acquisition. But yes, absolutely, [we’re interested in] things that make sense to sort of extend the care continuum – particularly to a Medicare population. billion, up 11.2%

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center: Equity and Vision

Sheppard Health Law

On October 20, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“ CMS ”) Innovation Center (“ Innovation Center ”) published a white paper detailing its vision for the next ten years: a health system that achieves equitable outcomes through high quality, affordable, person-centered care. Strategic Objective 1: Drive Accountable Care.

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SCAN Group Acquires The Residentialist Group to Further Build Its Home-Based Care ‘Thesis’

Home Health Care

“A few years ago, as our board was doing a strategic refresh, there was an acknowledgement that there are many ways to keep seniors healthy and independent,” Dr. Sachin Jain, president and CEO of SCAN Group and SCAN Health Plan, told Home Health Care News. Medicare Advantage is one way to do that, but it’s by no means the only way.

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Bamboo Health Streamlines Care Collaboration for Oak Street Health for Real-Time Patient Event Notifications

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – Bamboo Health announced that it has expanded its care coordination partnership with Oak Street Health intended to arm the network of value-based primary care centers (for Medicare) with an additional level of resources for managing real-time patient event notifications.

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Transitional Care: How Can We Make it Better for Patients?

Healthcare Leadership

Over the past decade we have seen more and more specialization and levels of care introduced. We now have telehealth visits, retail clinics, direct-primary-care, and more. More fragmentation = more transitions. More transitions = more issues. Naylor M, Keating SA.